Delaina

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Date registered: 21/08/2010

Latest posts

  1. Haiku For Jer — 06/05/2012
  2. World Poetry Day 2012 — 21/03/2012
  3. Haiku for Kandahar — 12/03/2012
  4. Have We No Better Way? — 12/03/2012
  5. Haiku For Japan — 11/03/2012

Most commented posts

  1. Goodbye — 6 comments
  2. Have We No Better Way? — 4 comments
  3. Haiku for Kandahar — 4 comments

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May 06

Haiku For Jer

day of loss your blue eyes closed forever hearts ripped   wide open void resides in my heart winter in spring

Mar 21

World Poetry Day 2012

sound bytes universal thoughts shared moments   free verse to haiku globe united through words World Poetry Day!

Mar 12

Haiku for Kandahar

Haiku for the People of Kandahar   darkness falls on humanity’s soul I’m sorry   weapons of man machines of metal or skin destroyers   justification? all reasoning lost to a broken mind   deaf to their cries blinded by what? remains unknown   a spark to close a line too thin to walk insanity?

Mar 12

Have We No Better Way?

Have We No Better Way? (For the People of Kandahar)   Today my heart is heavy With loss.   But please, don’t send your condolences to me –   send it to the world send it to each other.   So many spirits lost in disasters and negligence shake our globe.   Yet we kill in …

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Mar 11

Haiku For Japan

A year later…   united by oceans family in humanity we mourn with you   loss shared tears shed death toiled   may your souls find comfort and peace in our ocean of love  

Mar 07

International Women’s Day 2012

International Women’s Day 2012   We dance on the ocean’s shores celebrating the birth of the moon.   Unwavering from the darkness we create change that enlightens.   With strength beyond continental coasts or landlocked borders striving for freedoms we create new life on our terms.   Many of us full of a passion for …

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Feb 26

My Un-silent Heart

My Un-silent Heart Today we celebrate our undocumented union. In reality it was our first date that never ended.   The book discussed two nights before, Serving in Silence, caused us both to lock eyes, then hearts. I asked you for more.   And my heart has not been silent since.   An eternity passed …

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Feb 18

Birthday Love

Birthday Love   You came into the world A daughter full of love And light.   Your own mother rejoiced In your life and the Gifts you brought.   In a flash of your parent’s eyes you became a woman and a mom yourself.   In your children’s’ eyes A hero, a mentor, their Mother. …

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Feb 11

Wrong Zip Code

Wrong Zip Code   Funeral flowers Undeliverable   Now left to carry in death’s bouquet,   I can’t help but wonder…   Did death have The wrong zip code too?

Feb 05

Gifts Found In Life

Gifts Found In Life (Another poem for Judy, one I think she would have liked)   Life in all its splendor puts our hearts in a blender mixing our souls so that we can find wonder.   To have lived and seen it all is a gift in and of itself. Yet life’s gift is …

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